One of the best things about creating a beautiful landscape design in your Snohomish/King County area yard is the ability to add pops of color that draw the eye. But if you are trying to create a landscape that is high-end and luxurious, how do you add color without it looking too chaotic or bringing down the luxury feel?
Here are some pro tips for adding color to your landscape and keeping it looking luxurious and amazing.
The Color Wheel is a Great Tool
One of the best ways to incorporate color into any space and have it look upscale and professionally done is to use the art of color theory. This is the practice of using the color wheel as a go-to tool to create a landscape with color that is pleasing to the eye and makes it hard to want to look anywhere else.
The color wheel is a circular chart that helps you to see how certain colors work with each other when paired together. There are three main layers to the color wheel
- Primary colors- these are the basic primary colors you learned about in school. The colors that cannot be mixed from other colors. This is red, blue, and yellow. It is the basis of creating every other color, the foundation.
- Secondary colors: These three colors are created by combining primary colors. They include orange, green, and purple.
- Tertiary Colors- These are color shades more than actual colors. They are created by mixing both primary and secondary colors together to create new shades.
Decide what your favorite color scheme is
The color wheel can help you decipher where your eye is drawn. For some people, they may want bright splashes of color with the entire rainbow. For others, they may just want to stick with a more muted palette that still feels like there are jewel-like colors added throughout, bringing an extra layer of art-like interest.
The best way to pick and determine the colors you love and the concept you have in your mind is to hire a professional landscape designer. They can ask questions and help you create something that looks amazing that you will love. To the untrained eye, it can be hard to decipher between what is available and what is the vision inside your head, and bring it to life while still making it look amazing and not like a collection of things that don’t work well together.
Use Analogous Colors in Larger Areas and Flower Beds
Analogous color schemes are another way of adding color to your landscape. This basically means what most people refer to as an ombre sort of effect. This is the practice of choosing three hues that touch each other on the color wheel. For example, if you were to use red, then you would continue on with maybe a dark shade of pink into a lighter shade of pink. This creates color interest without overwhelming the eye and giving it too much to focus on or look at. Is a subtle and relaxing effect while also bringing that mood boosting pop-up color.
Monochrome color scheme
A monochrome color scheme is almost the same pattern as the analogous. Monochrome takes a step further by not just incorporating all of the same color of flower, but maybe also the same color hues in the shrubs and leaves of the plants. Yes, that’s right, plant leaves can come with different hues of color beyond just green. This is a great way to bring some fun pops of color as well, without creating too loud of a statement. It keeps things settled in a minimal way, which gives it a luxurious feel. Adding the extra layers of color in leaves also gives on illusion of high-end luxury.
Consider garden accents and planters
Color doesn’t only have to come from plants in your landscape. It can come from expertly placed hardscape elements like accessories and planters. You could even incorporate a very interesting piece of landscape sculptural art. These are also always to have color brightening your landscape all your long as plants come in and out of bloom during certain seasons.
If you are trying to incorporate a pop of color into your very green Snohomish or King County area landscape, the team at First Fruits Landscaping is here to help. We love to create landscapes that customers love and have them wanting to be out in their yard more than inside their home. Contact us anytime to get started on designing an amazing landscape with great pops of color.